addy49599 = addy49599 + 'wpfw' + '.' + 'org'; 326, Sataria JoynerThis email address is being protected from spambots. I remember being nervous, but I soon overcame my natural shyness as I began to share my love of jazz and introduce others to the music as I had been by Symphony Sid and Mort Fega. It was serendipity that started my broadcasting career. document.getElementById('cloak49599').innerHTML = ''; Miyuki M Williams Age 60s | Washington, DC View Full Report Phone | Current Address | Public Records | Criminal Records Top Result for Miyuki Williams in Washington, DC 1 The best result we found for your search is Miyuki M Williams age 60s in Washington, DC in the Pleasant Plains neighborhood. But beyond the substance of the new grid, programmers, members of the Local Station Board, and even Pacificas interim executive director, Summer Reese, say the changes were made without enough input, sensitivity, or notice. Miyuki Williams (pictured left) began her decades-long career as a DJ with a spontaneous phone call. Greg Sashi Kearse (former jazz columnist at Howard University, Afro-American Newspaper), Hi Greg, sorry that we didnt previously provide a link. var addy68494 = 'production' + '@'; WPFW News Celebrating the Life of Harry Belafonte The legendary performer and human rights champion Harry Belafonte joined the ancestors on Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at the age of 96. Soccer A recent radio show on WPFW began with a quote from Shakespeares Henry V, as the love-struck king woos his future wife. document.getElementById('cloak9275').innerHTML = ''; Washington also benefited from the addition of three new FM stations in the 1970s that featured jazz: WHUR, WETA, and WPFW. Rev. DC Jazz: Stories of Jazz Music in Washington, DC, The university sold the license to C-SPAN, wrote about jazz radio finding itself at an existential crossroads, How a Chicana-run community radio station changed the cultural soundscape of public broadcasting, https://www.amazon.com/DC-Jazz-Stories-Music-Washington/dp/1626165890. Askia Muhammad, Morning Jazz: . On Dec. 3, the day that WPFWs new schedule premiered and some new programs aired for the first time, Hill resigned, citing the pain caused by the changes he helped implement. 30. The university sold the license to C-SPAN to close a budget gap for $13 million. Looking at Arbitron figures and the stations pledge-drive data, Hughes says he determined a need to rethink WPFWs schedule with the drive-time hours of 5 to 9 a.m. and 3 to 7 p.m. in mind. The discontent returned last fall with a song. Much of its aging, analog equipment wont survive the move, Hughes says, but he says that with a stripped down set-up, the station wont need to suspend live programming. To Hughes, whos led the nonprofit WPFW for nearly two years, the solution is running a station of musical obsessives and anti-establishmentarians more like a businesswhich means, in his telling, crafting a less jarring programming schedule that he hopes will bring a bigger audience and fill the stations coffers with more donations. You can buy the book here: https://www.amazon.com/DC-Jazz-Stories-Music-Washington/dp/1626165890. //